XV Feat. Schoolboy Q – “AaaHH! Real Monsters” X Popular Culture

Well, not really. They’re only worth half a bar as he and Schoolboy Q get loose on “AaaHH! Real Monsters.” XV’s the type to keep his nose to the grind stone anyway and, with Figg side in the building, you get a solid sneak peak at XV’s newest free.99 album.

Time to turn the PlayStations and Xbox 360s off kids and tune in to XV’s latest, Popular Culture. Witchita’s pride has steadily improved with every free project so it’s natural to expect him to keep the winning streak going. Besides, us rap/game geeks have to stick together. We can’t have the lane dominated by prime time actor/comedians moonlighting as rappers, right…right?

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Sometimes the best things in life are free. Case in point, this mix-album, which is available for the nada. Usually with things that are free, there is a catch: the couch you get on the street has a funny smell you can’t get rid of, the free contest you enter gives millions of spammers and junk mail companies your contact info. With “Popular Culture” there is no catch. This is just good quality hip hop !! Nah dont let my bias get to ya… but this is good stuff !!

So happy to see TSS Crew digging XV’s music. A year ago I was all like “why u no post XV music, Sir Gotty ??” and now Sir Gotty be repping his music in an interview about him & TSS !! Y’all took ur time but finally its all good… makes me really happy !!

This may not be XV’s best release, however as expected it doesn’t disappoint !! Fans of XV past music will be very familiar with the content of his rhymes but this project is like XV’s 4EvaNaDay !! XV, as always, feeds us a steady diet of great songs but the tone is more serious and sombre !!

Yes, as a big-time fan of XV (and Everybody’s Nobody & Zero Heroes) I look forward to more hooks and melodies than are found on Popular Culture, still I can say that the record is a solid effort that delivers something grounded in the familiar, but still it’s own.

Zero Heroes > Everybody’s Nobody > Vizzy Zone = Popular Culture

Yo! @Beware did you ever get around to listening his past music.. i dropped some suggestions for ya over there…[smokingsection.uproxx.com]

So happy to see TSS Crew digging XV’s music. A year ago I was all like “why u no post XV music, Sir Gotty ??” and now Sir Gotty be repping his music in an interview about him & TSS !! Y’all took ur time but finally its all good… makes me really happy !!
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It’s hard to make people – other listeners, labels, managers and artists – understand that it’s okay to actually listen and take in an artist’s music, get an understanding for their work then say “okay, check this cat.” Fools rush in and create the hype. that’s why the game’s all out of whack.

Nobody around here wants to be associated w/the next Charles Hamilton either lol

I apologize.. my first comment kinda came across as “now XV got every other blog’s attention so TSS is jumping on the bandwagon”

NOPE !!!

My point was… y’all certainly posted about him but not his every move like lets say the way we love David Dallas or Freddie Gibbs over here !! But now TSS is showing full support & love for the reason given by Sir Gotty above which i totally get it !!

Per the PR: “Upon the release of the two projects, XV will enter self-imposed exile to begin the recording process of his debut album The Kid with the Greenback which will be helmed by Just Blaze. Speaking in a candid interview with The Source, XV revealed “I’m trying to create that classic sound which is soul based. I’m bringing him all the samples because I know he’s a genius at that. We share a lot of passions and I want to take a bunch of those awesome things and put them in my debut album.”

Also, I desperately hope he finds a way off Warner. Same with Pac Div, they don’t know what to do with rap artists whose main hook is their rapping and not goofball gimmicks and trickery.
I think he’d do twice as well elsewhere.

I dont think I would like to describe XV as an artist whose main hook is their rapping skills !! I think he is a more versatile & complete artist than his peers like BoB !! He is slick with his hook-writing… i mean there is a far better chance XV would drop the next “Nothing On You/Airplanes” than any other rapper/producer !! I suppose that was the prime reason why Warner Bros. gave him a deal !!

Now im not saying everything is all fine & dandy… of course XV has mentioned it but he hasn’t come out all the way like Gangsta Gibbs got love for Interscope haha !! But WB need to go strong with his marketing & promotion… I still think XV needs to re-release both “Nevermind” & “The Last Hero” as promo singles with good quality videos to further solidify his position in mainstream media !!